Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. Then the clock starts ticking again.” We’d rather not do that.

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Locus

JANUARY 28, 2022

Logistical challenges faced by home service businesses. Check Out: Streamlining last-mile logistics for Services-based Companies. Some of the logistical challenges faced by home services are: Adhering to customer-preferred time windows: Managing time-slots is one of the most common challenges faced by home service providers.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Penske associates across the organization will join today for Penske Pink Out – an associate-led breast cancer awareness event now in its ninth year. Associates will wear pink T-shirts, polos, wristbands, socks and hats, and host fundraisers and breast cancer awareness activities during this year's event.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat operations at the full combat potential of forces. [1]. Logistics readiness is not just a matter of prioritising Defence resources. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. Once you have a model in place, it becomes possible to play out various events and find the best way to react. Moreover, with a pinch of advanced analytics we can start predicting the future events and taking preemptive action.

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Logistics in War

JULY 8, 2023

This is the third and final part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. What is particularly important, however, is the emphasis given to the ADF’s logistics capabilities, functions, and concepts in creating the conditions for a better-prepared ADF.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is no longer enough to ‘green wash’ your company’s environmental performance or treat issues such as diversity and inclusion in the workplace as another ‘box ticking exercise’. The post SEC Group delivers IMHX sustainability zone appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

A ground-breaking Sustainability Zone will be one of the major highlights at this year’s International Materials Handling Exhibition (IMHX 2022), when the UK logistics industry’s flagship event returns to the NEC, Birmingham, this September. The post IMHX reveals Sustainability Zone appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Manager

JULY 15, 2019

The exercise demonstrated the steps that need to be taken by responders when a building collapse. ONE recognizes the importance of preparation for such disastrous events and provided the containers as props for this simulated exercise. The company is planning to continuously be involved in further CSR activities in the future.

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Logistics Manager

MAY 12, 2020

Last year, DAMCO’s Business Resilience Team, working with front line staff, successfully managed 94 disruptive events globally, ranging from supply chain disruption in the wake of Typhoon Tisoy in the Philippines, to hold-ups due to new Air Cargo Screening Regulations in Hong Kong.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat operations at the full combat potential of forces. [1]. Logistics readiness is not just a matter of prioritising Defence resources. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness. By David Beaumont.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As a result, you must exercise extreme caution when selecting each partner, making sure they have sufficient security procedures and resources in place. What happens in the event of a data leak? not only for your business but also for its clients and associates.

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Log-hub

MAY 18, 2022

The entire team also got a chance to attend our Advisory Board Meeting, which was the center of gravity for knowledge, brainstorming, and Supply Chain and Logistics expertise. We finished this unforgettable time on Zlatibor mountain with group games and exercise, strengthening the team spirit.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

We continue our series on strategic shipping by going into detail of the 10 main areas that shippers can turn to in order to have a strategic logistics and transportation management mindset. 6 Benefits of Using the Right Data in Logistics & Transportation Management for Continuous Improvement. Order Processing Capabilities.

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10xLogistics

MARCH 22, 2020

Similiar exercises were done in Korea and other places. There are a lot of details to work out but perhaps we need this force that can work in the complex civilian world of supply chain and tie it to the needs of a pandemic so we can scale up the supply chain and distribution / logistics network very quickly. We should follow it.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

Last year, Damco’s Business Resilience Team, working with front line staff, successfully managed 94 disruptive events globally, ranging from supply chain disruption in the wake of Typhoon Tisoy in the Philippines, to hold ups due to new Air Cargo Screening Regulations in Hong Kong.

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 10, 2020

The consequences of a pandemic event are hard to predict,” says Koray Köse, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner. Travel restrictions, shortages in labor and materials, as well as logistical challenges through tightened controls, and hub and border closures will cascade and augment the impact much further today than it did 17 years ago.

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

In a recent article published in Mundo Logística , Tereos’ Logistics and S&OP Executive Manager, André Margoto , shares valuable insights on how agribusiness companies can use optimization models in (near) real-time to inform planning decisions and bolster their S&OP process. But technology is only part of the process.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 11, 2018

Dale Smith from Wilko Retail Ltd took home the esteemed title following a day of heated competition on Thursday 21st June 2018 at the Talent in Logistics Conference in Telford, West Midlands. Firstly, as a complete engagement piece, demonstrating the relevance of all business members being involved in an event with national scope.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2019

We have carried out so many interesting activities that revisiting some of them and the results we achieved is worth the exercise. It organized, co-organized or participated in around 20 high-level events to strengthen advocacy for South-South cooperation, Zero Hunger and school feeding.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The associate-led event, which began in 2015 in the U.S. Associates will wear pink T-shirts, wrist bands, masks, socks and hats, and host fundraisers and awareness activities during this year's event. with 200 associates, has grown to locations across Penske's international footprint. Making Strides Toward a Cure.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Audi officially premiered its e-tron electric SUV at a summit event in San Francisco this week but production has been underway for a couple of weeks already at its plant in Brussels, Belgium, which is making the e-tron for global markets. Battery logistics. The carmaker confirmed that Serva Transport Systems was supplying the systems.

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

In a recent article published in Mundo Logística , Tereos’ Logistics and S&OP Executive Manager, André Margoto , shares valuable insights on how agribusiness companies can use optimization models in (near) real-time to inform planning decisions and bolster their S&OP process.

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FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

Emphasizing agile and lean logistics management will allow you to outperform slower competitors through the ability to make informed decisions on the fly, rather than relying on gut instinct or incomplete information. Logistics managers today must contend with a growing number of unforeseen factors and disruptions.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Faculty members from some of the leading logistics education programs share their thoughts on how higher education is preparing tomorrow’s professionals for the challenges ahead. Q: What are the latest trends in logistics education, and how does your program address them? Georgia Southern supports this trend in several ways.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2020

In the normal course of events, these goods risk disposal or destruction. As restrictions on movement are lifted in the UK, stakeholders need to be ever more vigilant, exercising due diligence to ensure that they maintain security, in what is predicted to be a very active period of cargo theft.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards. An expensive and inefficient option, redundancy in this context means keeping excess capacity or back-up across the entire supply chain in case of shock events, such as natural catastrophes and epidemics. 4) Create Redundancy.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. competitive threats, new regulations, more stringent customer expectations).

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who had recently conducted a transportation sourcing event. There are plenty of companies using a flawed process in conducting their transportation sourcing events. Because of confirmation bias, you may give them the “benefit of the doubt” instead of exercising appropriate due diligence.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The event, now in its fourth year, will feature associates across Canada and the U.S. In addition to early detection, the foundation encourages the adoption of a healthy lifestyle complete with a healthy diet, a healthy weight and exercise. The event grew each year as more associates learned about it.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

The demand planner must engage sales, marketing, finance, and logistics colleagues to gather the required data. While this task will draw heavily on the demand plan, the Supply Chain Head will also need to canvas input from the company’s finance, logistics, operations, and manufacturing functions. The Executive Sponsor.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 10, 2018

Due to the restrictions placed upon carriers by ELDs, the farthest freight from the ramp is being scrutinized in the drayage community, and these carriers are exercising choice when it comes to longer haul lengths. The post Combating Intermodal Market Challenges & Costs appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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Camelot 3PL Software

JANUARY 16, 2022

Supply chain and logistics remain hot topics globally and even more so in recent weeks as the conflict in Ukraine and Eastern Europe evolves. The adage Speed, Quality, Cost – Pick two is an everyday exercise. We can’t predict such events, but we can have backup plans in place for other similar bottlenecks. It’s everywhere.

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2020

Including organizing simulation exercises so that they are better prepared for how to react should they ever find themselves in danger. Benjamin remembers the events of the day vividly. “It It was a sunny but wet morning on 23 July when myself and three colleagues set out from our base in Kapoeta,” he says. Today someone must die!”

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Penske Move Ahead

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Through Share the Road , a highway safety program developed by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) , professional truck drivers teach teen drivers how to exercise good judgment when driving on roadways shared with commercial vehicles like tractor-trailers. Smith System is a leading provider of collision avoidance driving training.

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